All 17 Uses of
precede
in
War and Peace
- And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all the more depressed.†
Chpt 3 *
- And he was not the only man to experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the Russian arms.†
Chpt 3
- Sonya had already struck him by her beauty on the preceding day.†
Chpt 4
- Everyone rose, feeling that dinner was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the rest, went in to dinner.†
Chpt 4
- He rode across one of the swaying pontoon bridges to the farther side, turned sharply to the left, and galloped in the direction of Kovno, preceded by enraptured, mounted chasseurs of the Guard who, breathless with delight, galloped ahead to clear a path for him through the troops.†
Chpt 9
- After all the preceding noise the sound of their old voices saying one after another, "I agree," or for variety, "I too am of that opinion," and so on had even a mournful effect.†
Chpt 9
- On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception.†
Chpt 10
- Behind him a cavalry regiment was coming down the hill preceded by its singers.†
Chpt 10
- Some talked about the Moscow militia which, preceded by the clergy, would go to the Three Hills; others whispered that Augustin had been forbidden to leave, that traitors had been seized, that the peasants were rioting and robbing people on their way from Moscow, and so on.†
Chpt 11
- During the three days preceding the occupation of Moscow the whole Rostov family was absorbed in various activities.†
Chpt 11
- And it is even more difficult to understand just why they think that this maneuver was calculated to save Russia and destroy the French; for this flank march, had it been preceded, accompanied, or followed by other circumstances, might have proved ruinous to the Russians and salutary for the French.†
Chpt 13
- If the aim of the European wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century had been the aggrandizement of Russia, that aim might have been accomplished without all the preceding wars and without the invasion.†
Chpt 15
- A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east.†
Chpt 15
- Attempted drives from east to west—similar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809—precede the great westward movement; there is the same coalescence into a group of enormous dimensions; the same adhesion of the people of Central Europe to the movement; the same hesitation midway, and the same increasing rapidity as the goal is approached.†
Chpt 15
- Reinstating the first condition omitted, that of time, we see that no command can be executed without some preceding order having been given rendering the execution of the last command possible.†
Chpt 15
- Our false conception that an event is caused by a command which precedes it is due to the fact that when the event has taken place and out of thousands of others those few commands which were consistent with that event have been executed, we forget about the others that were not executed because they could not be.†
Chpt 15
- When one of the opinions expressed is fulfilled, that opinion gets connected with the event as a command preceding it.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before